Reno's Everett Adams had hand in restoring 'Titanic' make-out car

12:07 AM,
Feb. 26, 2014

Everett Adams displays a photo of one of the hundreds of classic cars he has restored during his career.

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In a lifetime spent under the hood, Reno's Everett Adams has quietly built an encyclopedic knowledge of engines and a museum's worth of cars, boats, airplanes and memorabilia.

Adams, 80, has had a hand in the restoration and recreations of some world famous motorized machines - ranging from George Whittell's famed boat the Thunderbird to the around-the-world-winning Thomas Flyer automobile to the 1911 Renault Town Car in which Kate Winslett and Leonardo DiCaprio famously made out in during the James Cameron film, "The Titanic."